Prayers, scripture, reflections, and habit ideas about how to walk in love from a Christian perspective. Most will be 2 minutes or less. It’s lo-fi and simple, like LibriVox. The value is from the beauty and truth and goodness of the words themselves. Most of this you could find elsewhere, but it might be buried inside other content or ads. I want to dig up these diamonds and have them easily available for focused use and reflection.
Latest episodes
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7 min
Prayer to choose love more fully
Transcript:Come, Holy Spirit. I want to choose love more fully in my life. And I know that I cannot without your help. Jesus said, "Apart from me, you can do nothing." So Jesus, I…
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1 min
Prayer for deliverance from pride
Transcript:Come, Holy Spirit. I ask. that out of your great goodness, you would make known to me and take out of my heart every kind and form and degree of pride, whether it be fro…
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2 min
Prayer for docility
Come, Holy Spirit, we ask that you would give us docile spirits. interested and ready to hear every word from you, desiring to be led by you patiently and gently, seeking to do you…
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2 min
Prayer for awareness of opportunities for love
Transcript:Come, Holy Spirit. I ask that you would renew my mind. open my eyes, bring me to a deeper awareness of the opportunities for love today. As I go throughout my day, help…
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3 min
Prayer for childlike wisdom
Transcript:Jesus, you say that your Father has hidden... the things that are most true and most beautiful about this world. From the wise and the learned. But he has revealed them…
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42 sec
Jacques Philippe’s prayer to the Holy Spirit
Source: Jacques Philippe’s book “Nine days to strengthen your faith”. If you like this, you might also be interested in his book “in the school of the Holy Spirit” Transcript:Holy…
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4 min
Prayer for grace to face my own faults
Inspired by Jesus’ words in the sermon on the mount “First take the log out of your own eye” Transcript:Come Holy Spirit,Help me to engage with honesty and courage. with my own fau…
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3 min
Prayer for creative imagination for one step of obedience
Transcript:Come, Holy Spirit.. I ask you for the. Creative imagination. to take these big theological ideas, these beautiful ideas…Every person being made in the image of God. of J…
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5 min
Prayer before Lectio Divina
This was inspired by sections in a book by Jacques Philippe called “Called to Life”, specifically sections about hearing from God through the Bible and the section about lectio Div…
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1 min
Suscipe prayer of Ignatius
Ignatius has so much rich teaching and prayers. I think I originally found this one via Timothy Gallagher, though I re-found it through Jess Ray, who has beautiful song version of…
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8 min
Prayer inspired by the Lord’s Prayer
This is an example of one way of praying the Lord’s Prayer, using each request as a jumping off point to explore and express related desires. It has been rightly said that all pray…
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2 min
Cardinal Mercier’s prayer of surrender to God
I found this prayer in Appendix I of “In The School of the Holy Spirit” by Jacques Philippe Transcript:Come, Holy Spirit. Help my imagination to be... quiet. Help me to close my ey…
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4 min
Prayer for immediate resistance of temptation (Ignatius rule 12)
Transcript:Come, Holy Spirit. Give me grace. to resist. The enemy at the very beginning of the temptations. I ask. for power from you to be bold and decisive and rejecting temptati…
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4 min
Prayer for maturity in consolation and desolation (Ignatius rule 11)
Prayer for maturity in consolation and desolation (Ignatius rule 11)Transcript:Come, Holy Spirit. When I am in consolation. Help me to focus on humbling myself. And lowering myself…
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3 min
Prayer for faithfulness to the inspirations of grace
Transcript:Come, Holy Spirit. I ask that you would help Logan to become more aware of whatever special inspirations of grace you have for him. help him to notice your voice Help hi…
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2 min
Prayer welcoming the Holy Spirit
This prayer is inspired by a passage on page 28 of a book called “The Sound of Life’s Unspeakable Beauty” by Martin Schleske. Transcript:Come, Holy Spirit, you are welcome in my he…
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4 min
Prayer for freedom from selfish desires
Transcript:Come, holy spirit, I ask that you would help me to let go of selfish reasons for doing things: leaving a conversation when it's no longer interesting to me.. Being part…
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4 min
Prayer to be a conduit of God’s love
Inspired by Frank Laubach and his book “Prayer - the mightiest force in the world” Transcript:Come, Holy Spirit. I want to be a conduit of your love today. May my eyes look with lo…
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3 min
Prayer of intellectual surrender
Transcript:Come Holy Spirit I come to you in surrender thinking about how many times my thoughts and heart have been. shipwrecked on mystery and paradox. and how my dualistic, rati…
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2 min
Prayer for grace to hear God
Transcript:Come, Holy Spirit. Help me to hear how what you are saying to me. You know I have. so many thoughts. Feelings in my heart. Things around me and within me that are distra…